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January 29: Rick Barot

Falvey Speakers' Corner

Rick Barot听was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers鈥� Workshop at the University of Iowa.

He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books:听听(2002), which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize;听听(2008), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and听听(2015),听which was a finalist for the听LA Times听Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle鈥檚 Thom Gunn Award.

February 24: Cauvery Madhavan

President's Lounge

Cauvery Madhavan was born in India and moved to Ireland thirty-three years ago, arriving on Valentines Day and, despite the Irish weather, has been in love with the country ever since. Cauvery is the author of three books of fiction 鈥� Paddy Indian, The Uncoupling and The Tainted. She writes opinion pieces for the Irish Times and wrote a Saturday column for the Evening Herald for seven years. She has also contributed to the Sunday Tribune, The Phoenix and Travel Extra. She is currently working on her fourth novel. She lives with her husband and three children in County Kildare.

March 10: Maya C. Popa

Falvey Speakers' Corner

Dr. Maya C. Popa (b. 1989) is most recently the author of (W.W. Norton 2022; Picador 2023) named one of the Guardian鈥檚 Best Books of Poetry. (Sarabande 2019) was runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong and was awarded the North American Book Prize in 2020.

She is previously the author of three chapbooks and has received numerous awards, including from the Poetry Foundation and the Oxford Poetry Society. Her writing has been commissioned by The United Nations and other institutions, and her poetry has been featured on a Louis Vuitton trunk for the Visionaries campaign, as well as in the Van Cleef & Arpels Spring Festival. She holds a PhD on the role of wonder in poetry from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she was a recipient of a department bursary for exceptional merit, and previous degrees from Oxford University, NYU, and Barnard College.

April 14: 脕lvaro Enrigue & Natasha Wimmer

Falvey Speakers' Corner

脕lvaro Enrigue was a Cullman Center Fellow and a Fellow at the Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies. He has taught at New York University, Princeton University, the University of Maryland, and Columbia University. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, The White Review, n+1, London Review of Books, El Pa铆s, among others. Muerte s煤bita (Sudden Death)鈥攈is first novel translated into English鈥攚as awarded the prestigious Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska International Novel Award in Mexico, and the Barcelona Prize for Fiction, and has been translated into many languages. Enrigue was born in Mexico and lives in New York City.

Natasha Wimmer is a translator of contemporary fiction and literary nonfiction from Spanish to English. She spent four formative years in Spain as a child and concentrated in Romance Languages and Literature as an undergraduate at Harvard University. She is a regular visiting lecturer at Princeton University and Columbia University, and she has written reviews and criticism for The Believer, The New York Times, and The Nation, among other publications. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Grant, a PEN Translation Award, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.